Xiaomi sales plummeting, company remains unfazed

"We could sell 10 billion smartphones and we wouldn't make a single dime in profits," Barra told Reuters in an interview. "Basically we're giving [handsets] to you without making any money… we care about the recurring revenue streams over many years.”
Despite declining smartphone sales in 2016, back in April Xiaomi vice-president Liu De projected sales of smart home devices to increase twofold this year (to around $1.5 billion).
Despite the downward trend in smartphone sales, Xiaomi is still investing heavily in the Asian mobile market and is finally gearing up to make its Western debut next month with a device capable of working on U.S. 4G networks. Furthermore, the company is preparing to show off a “global” mobile device at CES 2017, which serves as evidence that Xiaomi is nowhere close to giving up on the mobile game.
Would you buy a Xiaomi phone if it was readily and widely available in your country?

source: Reuters
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